Montpellier (Hérault) Montpellier, Languedoc-Rosellón capital, is located 7 miles from the sea and one - half way between Spain and Italy. A stay is an ideal place for a short visit or during holidays. Montpellier has excellent communications by road, train or plane. Montpellier France Montpellier is provided by two highways (the A9 via Lyon or Toulouse and the A75 via Clermont-Ferrand and the viaduct Millau), there are several daily services of the railway, like the high speed train, the TGV, which covers the journey from Paris to Montpellier in three hours and fifteen minutes, and also air, from Paris in an hour and ten minutes. Montpellier is a historic region with many places declared world heritage by UNESCO. For those who want to discover this city result is a perfect starting point. His academic tradition ancestral helped make it a major cultural, scientific and artistic.
Furthermore, Montpellier has kept many traces of its past: medieval streets, small palace, a real place ... an urban jewelry completely pedestrian, which is lent to the walk and surprises. It satisfies the
Conégocier: It is the symbol of the dynamism that characterizes today in Montpellier. With the Opera Palace, built in the nineteenth century from the model of the Opera Garnier in Paris, and his statue of the Three credits. The Egg, a name that gets this place since its oval form, is the nerve center of Montpellier. The terraces their many cafes and restaurants transform a living space which converge throughout the day students and lugareños. Faculty Medicine of Montpellier Faculty of Medicine has more ancient than the western world (1220 rate), and still operating. Here they illustrious students studied, such as François Rabelais. School of Surgery was founded by two doctors of Montpellier, doctors and Lapeyronnie Barthez, whose statues adorn their entry. Cathedral of Saint Peter: Annex to the Faculty of Medicine, St. Peter's Cathedral was built in the late fourteenth century by Pope Urban V. desire
The two pillars that support their grandiose porch projection, the typical inhabitant of the Gothic South, are actually amazing. The Royal Promenade: This French-style gardens were designed in the eighteenth century and around a huge statue of Louis XIV against the majestic Arc de Triomphe. The aqueduct of St. Clement, known as they Arches (Les Arcs), ended an elegant water deposit. By its elevation, this place offers a wonderful panoramic north of the city and the mountains of the Cevennes, which since there seem close at hand.
Botanic Garden: Included among the most prestigious botanical gardens in the world, the Botanical Garden was created by Richer Belleval in 1593 to demand Enrique IV, and is the oldest of France. Antigone: The modern part of town, built in neoclassic style reinvented by the Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill, lodge homes, offices and many business. Descúbralo on foot or by tram. The "Follies" in Montpellier: In the eighteenth century, a period of great prosperity, Montpellier housed the main administrative bodies (Languedoc States, Court of Accounts, Exchange ...). This circumstance allowed the nobility and the bourgeoisie to build large townhouses in Montpellier and señorial houses in the neighborhood, "Follies", situated in the middle gardens with shrubs, which competed among themselves in improving and architectural style. They were generally rectangular housing plant, with clean lines ornamented with sculptures.
Gardens is stretched out from the house into terraces, adorned with statues and reservoirs. The most original was the castle Flaugergues, but also worth visiting the castles and Moger Mosson. His monumental sources, water and gardens filled with fresh summer morning. Useful information: The tourist office organizes tours to the Fabre Museum, including a course by the city, both for individuals as groups.
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